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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1941
Page
8
Chicago market sees hog prices drop 25 to 35 cents from Friday as receipts hit 12 000 head with top price around 10 75, while dressed pork remains firm. Lamb and cattle activity slows with varied steady or lower prices. Sioux City and Cedar Rapids reports show similar softer tone.
Hogs receipts 7,800 to total 10,900 with declines across weights. top at 10.25. Cattle receipts noted, bids weak to steady for steers and heifers, cows lower. Sheep prices mixed with lambs down. yearlings shown with modest gains. Chicago and Des Moines markets show softer trends across hogs and cattle with varied weight classes and bids.
Market notes from Austin Minnesota St Paul Minnesota and Peoria Illinois show barrows and gilts trading across weight classes with prices ranging near 8.35 to 10.25 per hundredweight and varying sow values. At St Paul receipts edge up while calves, bulls and stock cattle move with mixed demand and steady to weak tone.
Hog prices on the local market drift lower across all grades. Long-haul top-dressed hogs sit at about 10.15 dollars, with good hogs varying by weight from roughly 8.80 to 10.05 dollars. Cattle and calf segments show mixed figures, while sheep lambs fetch around 10.30 dollars for 65-85 pound range.
Grain and produce prices list for Cedar Rapids including wheat oats rye barley and beans, fresh fruits and vegetables with units and prices. Stock market lines show daily open high low close for industrials utilities railroads and miscellaneous stocks with transaction totals for Monday.
New York traders faced a lackluster session with light offerings and few winners. Major issues like U S Steel Bethlehem Chrysler GM Westinghouse International Harvester Southern Pacific and Montgomery Ward lagged the market while Standard Oil NJ rose to a new 1941 high and several names resisted declines.
Wall Street quotations list many names with prices and changes from Lehigh Valley, Allied Stores, Lorillard, Coca Cola, Procter Gamble, Chrysler Motors, General Electric, United Aircraft, IBM, and others. The page notes bankers and brokers and cites prices for Amoco, Anaconda, Bethlehem Steel, and numerous industrials across sectors in a dense ledger style. It reflects a busy market update with numerous NY and Chicago listings, including transportation, utilities, and consumer goods firms.
CIRESE MARKET PLYMOUTH Wis AP cheese quotations: cheddar 30 4, brick 19 4, Swiss 20 3 4, cheese 30 4. WOOL MARKET BOSTON UP quiet market with no action on options amid government contract awards. Combing wools largely inactive. bright wools 46 to 48 cents in grease as buyers wait for contract clarity.
Grain futures climbed on the Chicago board with all oat deliveries at season highs. Wheat rose about 14 to 1 percent, soybeans fell, and corn and rye moved with wheat as demand stayed moderate and offerings light. Cash prices across wheat, oats, barley and soybeans were reported with several grades quoted.
New York bonds traded near Saturday levels with minor shifts. U S government issues showed a quiet over the counter market while long term treasuries fell about 1 2 points. Corporate issues edged mixed with Pennsylvania General 414s of 65 and Western Union 5s noted firmer and Southern Pacific 44s of 69 and Nickel Plate 52s weaker. Foreign issues including Japan 64s and Canada 4s firmed. Italy 7s fell. U S government bonds closed the day with Federal Farm 3s 49 and Home Owners 3s 52.
New York reports 2 day egg receipts at 35 745, mixed colors and price ranges across grades. butter weak with scores above 92 and various cash marks. cheese quiet with state whole milk flats noted. Chicago shows live poultry prices across many breeds, butter and egg receipts, and wholesale price signals. potatoes and produce futures listed by Samson Bros. and Co with regional price points.
Traer Albert McMillan announces the engagement of daughter Nell to John Erickson of California. The wedding is planned for late July. Nell is University of Iowa trained and formerly worked on a Clarion newspaper. Erickson is son of the late John Erickson, formerly of Traer, now in California. Monona Dorothy Thompson wins Clayton county conservation record book contest and will attend Mitigwa camp July 3–5, limited to 48 girls. She belongs to Jolly Workers 4-H. leader is Willa Helwig. Ossian Billie Goggin celebrates fourth birthday with friends and gifts. Independence Catherine Burke dies at 78 in Newton township after 70 years in Buchanan county. born Wisconsin 1863, married Thomas Burke in 1883, he died in 1916.
A Newton township woman died at her longtime home of 59 years after marriage. Survived by four daughters Mrs Dan Lyness Ryan Mrs John Leavens Independence Mrs John Woods Mandalin Mrs Louis O'Brien Coggon and three sons Thomas Joseph of Coggon Louis of Walker plus 47 grandchildren and five great grandsons. Two sons and two daughters predeceased her. Funeral at St Patrick's Monti at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday conducted by Rev William McGovern. Burial in Monti church yard cemetery. Casketbearers are eight grandsons.
Wants and ads note a Saturday loss of a tarpaulin between Cedar Rapids and Springville with a reward offered to finder. Mentions H Sheehy of Springville as contact and references to automobiles and general classifieds.
A dense page of classified ads listing sodding and black dirt, seeding, guttering and spouting services, rug and carpet cleaning, furnace and spouting work, lawn mower servicing, painting and junk purchase. Includes multiple business names such as KUTCHERA SODDING & FUEL CO, HAWKEYE TIN SHOP, DREW'S, Gardner Rug, Novak Heating, and others with contact numbers and brief service notes. Offers free estimates and machine ground lawn mowers with delivery. Residents urged to dial listed numbers for prompt local home maintenance.
Classified notices and ads dominate the page with beauty parlor promotions at Lovely Lady and Deluxe Beauty Shop offering permanents and waves, plus help wanted listings for drivers, housework, and machine design. Other items include a law-like employment notice and a fidelity service directory among numerous short listings.
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